Federal Government Plans Broader Tests For Drug Use

U.S. & LATIN AMERICA - The Nation - In Brief

January 15, 2004

NEW YORK -- The federal government is preparing to overhaul drug testing of its employees to include scrutiny of workers' hair, saliva and sweat, a shift that could spur more businesses to revise screening for millions of their own workers. The planned changes reflect government efforts to be more precise in its drug screening and to outmaneuver a small but growing subset of workers who try to cheat on urine-based tests.